Re:The OpenTF Manifesto
by jen20 on Wednesday August 16, 2023 @10:27AM
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This one needs some clarification.
It’s actually not a guesstimate about what actions will be taken, it’s a guesstimate of the state that will result from those actions without any reference to ordering or “actions” as a cloud API would understand them - the plan is purely in terms of CRUD on Terraform provider resources and provisioners.
This may seem like a nit, but it fundamentally changes what Terraform is capable of doing in a single pass without external coordination.
It’s actually not a guesstimate about what actions will be taken, it’s a guesstimate of the state that will result from those actions without any reference to ordering or “actions” as a cloud API would understand them - the plan is purely in terms of CRUD on Terraform provider resources and provisioners.
This may seem like a nit, but it fundamentally changes what Terraform is capable of doing in a single pass without external coordination.